People | Medicine, Health and Society

CORE FACULTY and STAFF

Jonathan M. Metzl Frederick B. Rentschler II Chair of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society M.D., University of Missouri; Ph.D., University of Michigan	Email (615) 343-0916 220-G Garland Hall	Health and mental health Race, ethnicity Social movements, politics, and power Gender and sexuality
Courtney S. Muse Assistant Director, Program in Medicine, Health, and Society; Sr. Lecturer Ph.D., Vanderbilt University	Email (615) 322-1764 220-E Garland Hall	Sociology of mental health and illness Illness identities in social movement mobilization Social psychology and gender Sexuality and sexual identity
JuLeigh Petty Sr. Lecturer Ph.D., Northwestern University	Email (615) 322-6725 220-D Garland Hall	Standardization of medicine Role of epidemiological evidence in medical decision-making Regulation and ethics of research HIV/AIDS
Lijun Song Assistant Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society Ph.D., Duke University	Email (615) 322-1731 220-C Garland Hall	Social Networks and Social Capital Medical Sociology Stratification and Mobility Chinese society
Marian V. Yagel Sr. Lecturer Ph.D., Vanderbilt University	Email (615) 343-1720 220-F Garland Hall	Medicine and literature Medicine, religion and spirituality Interdisciplinary health care ethics Undergraduate writing
Lynn Lentz Program Administrator B.S., University of Tennessee	Email (615) 343-0916 220-A Garland Hall

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Anthropology

Beth Conklin Associate Professor Ph.D., Univ. of California at San Francisco and Berkeley	Email	Medical anthropology Anthropology of the body Cannibalism Death and mourning
Thomas Gregor Professor Ph.D., Columbia	Email	Psychological anthropology Gender roles and sexuality Peace and aggression Psychoanalysis and culture
Norbert Ross Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Freiburg, Germany	Email	Cognitive anthropology Culture and cognition Children’s acquisition of cultural knowledge Cultural change
Tiffiny Tung Associate Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Email	Bioarchaeology Paleopathology Violence-related trauma Ritual uses of the human body and body parts Imperialism

Biological Sciences

Julián F. Hillyer

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Mosquito immunology and physiology
Host-parasite interactions

Carl H. Johnson

Stevenson Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University

Cellular and Molecular Biology of Biological Clocks

Lawrence Zwiebel

Professor

Ph.D., Brandeis University

Comprehensive study of olfaction and olfactory-based behaviors in malaria and other disease vector mosquitoes

Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Kevin T. Seale

Assistant Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Searle Systems Biology and Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Experience

Chemistry

David W. Wright

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Design, synthesis and characterization of organic templates capable of mediating the growth of biological important biominera

Economics

Kathryn Anderson

Associate Professor

Ph.D., North Carolina State University

Labor and economic developmen

English

Jay Clayton William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair Ph.D., University of Virginia	Email	Victorian literature Genetics and literature Digital technology and online narratives Contemporary fiction
Kate Daniels Professor of English & Creative Writing M.F.A., Columbia University	Email	Creative Writing: Poetry 19th & 20th Century American Poetry Women’s Poetry Psychoanalysis and Poetry
Carolyn Dever Dean of College of Arts & Science; Professor of English Ph.D., Harvard University	Email	Victorian literature and culture Gender studies
Leah Marcus Edwin Mims Professor of English Ph.D., Columbia University	Email	Literature and medicine Constructions of the body
Ifeoma Nwankwo Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society Ph.D., Duke University	Email	U.S. African American Literature and Popular Music Caribbean Literature and Popular Music Using Life Narratives in Aging Research and Translation

Ethnomusicology

Gregory Barz

Associate Professor of Musicology (Ethnomusicology), Divinity School, Graduate Dept. of Religion, African American Studies

Ph.D., Brown

Medical ethnomusicologist specializing in music and medicine in sub-Saharan Africa

German

John A. McCarthy

Professor of German & Comparative Literature and Professor of European Studies

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

Goethe and the life sciences
Poet doctors
Mental and physical health in literature
Genetics and Guenter Grass

History

Michael Bess Chancellor’s Professor of History; Professor of European Studies Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley	Email	History of the social and ethical implications of technological change 20th-century European history
Katherine Crawford Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago	Email	Gender and sexuality France Early modern Europe Visual and popular culture
Dennis Dickerson James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History Ph.D., Washington University	Email	19th & 20th century American history and African American history labor Religion U. S. civil rights movement
Sarah Igo Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of History and Political Science; Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society; Associate Professor of Sociology Ph.D., Princeton University	Email	Modern American cultural and intellectual history The history of the human sciences, the sociology of knowledge The history of the public sphere
Jane Landers Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Ph.D., University of Florida	Email	History of colonial Latin America Atlantic World Afro-circum-Caribbean borderlands Comparative slave systems Women and gender in colonial Latin America
Elizabeth Lunbeck Nelson Tyrone, Jr Professor of History; Professor of Psychiatry Ph.D., Harvard	Email	History of psychiatry and psychoanalysis History of the human sciences Women and gender 20th-century US cultural and intellectual history
Matthew Ramsey Associate Professor Ph.D., Harvard	Email	History of modern France History of medicine, public health, and public assistance European cultural history in the 18th and 19th centuries
Ruth Rogaski Associate Professor Ph.D., Yale	Email	History of Qing and 20-century China History of medicine and science Women and gender 19th and 20th century social and cultural history
Arleen Tuchman Professor of History Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison	Email	History of science and medicine History of disease Gender and sexuality Culture and the body

Human and Organizational Development (Peabody College)

Vera Chatman

Professor of the Practice of Human and Organizational Development

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Career development over the life span and issues of cultural competency for health care organizations

Sharon Shields

Associate Dean for Professional Education; Professor of the Practice of Health Promotion and Education

Ph.D., George Peabody College

Community health and human issues

Philosophy

Lenn Goodman

Professor of Philosophy; Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities

Ph.D., University of Oxford

Metaphysics
Ethics
Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
Political Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy

John Lachs

Centennial Professor

Ph.D., Yale

Metaphysics
Philosophy of mind
Political philosophy
Ethics

Russell McIntire

Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Science; Sr. Lecturer of Philosophy

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Applied medical ethics, especially the patient-physician relationship

Psychology

Richard McCarty Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Professor of Psychology Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University	Email	Physiological and behavioral adaptions to stress and factors contributing to development of hypertension
Timothy McNamara Vice Provost for Faculty; Professor of Psychology Ph.D., Yale	Email	Mechanisms of memory retrieval Spatial memory Text comprehension
Elisabeth H. Sandberg Senior Lecturer Ph.D., University of Chicago	Email
David Schlundt Associate Professor Ph.D., Indiana University	Email	Nutrition and behavior in chronic disease Health disparities

Psychology and Human Development (Peabody College)

Bruce Compas

Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair of Psychology and Human Development; Professor of Pediatrics

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

processes of coping and self-regulation in response to stress and adversity in children, adolescents, and adults

Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey

Associate Professor of Psychology & Human Development, Director of Undergraduate Major in Child Development

Ph.D., Michigan State University

Parental involvement in children’s and adolescents’ education and the influence of family engagement on student learning outcomes.

Chase Lesane-Brown

Research Assistant Professor of Psychology

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Socialization messages Black parents transmit to their children about race
racial identity development
the process of parent-child communication about health
coping mechanisms used by children with a chronic illness

Religious Studies

Volney Gay

Professor

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Sociology

Tony N. Brown Interim Chair and Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Michigan	Email	Race and Racism Social Psychology Mental Health Quantitative Methods Survey Design
Tyson Brown Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina	Email	Medical Sociology Racial/Ethnic and Gender Relations Life Course and Aging Stratification Quantitative Methods
Karen Campbell Associate Professor; Sr. Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Science Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	Email	Gender Inequality Occupations and Professions Social Networks
Laura Carpenter Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania	Email	Gender, Sex & Sexuality Health and Medicine, Aging and the Life Course, Qualitative Methods Mass Media and Journalism
André Christie-Mizell Associate Professor Ph.D., Ohio State University	Email	Social Psychology Physical and Mental Health Family Race/Ethnicity Statistics Quantitative Methods
Katharine Donato Chair and Professor Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook	Email	International Migration between Mexico and the U.S. Social Determinants of Health Immigrants in the U.S. Economy Ethnic and Gender Stratification
Evelyn Patterson Assistant Professor of Sociology; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health and SocietyPh.D., University of Pennsylvania	Email	Correctional Populations Mortality Mathematical Demography Statistics
R. Jay Turner Professor Ph.D., Syracuse University	Email	Mental Health/Substance Use Problems Psychiatric Epidemiology

Spanish

Lorraine Catanzaro

Sr. Lecturer and Pre-Major Advisor

Ph.D., Vanderbilt University

Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish for the Medical Professions

Benigno Trigo

Professor

Ph.D., Yale

19th-Century Spanish American Literature
Literary Theory
Modernism, and Psychoanalysis

VANDERBILT DIVINITY SCHOOL

Victor Anderson

Oberlin Theological School Chair; Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious StudiesPh.D., Vanderbilt University

VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL

James Blumstein University Professor of Constitutional Law & Health Law & Policy; Director, Vanderbilt Health Policy Center Ph.D., University of Wisconsin	Email	Health law and public policy Constitutional law
Joni Hersch Professor of Law and Economics Ph.D., Northwestern	Email	Labor Economics Discrimination Law and Economics
Terry Maroney Associate Professor of Law; Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society J.D., New York University	Email	Explores how cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience can illuminate critical issues in law Examines the role of emotion in judging
W. Kip Viscusi University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management Ph.D., Harvard University	Email	Tort reform Risk and insurance Law and economics

OWEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Bart Victor

Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership

Ph.D., University of North Carolina

Ethics and Social Responsibility
Communications
Organization Studies

Timothy Vogus

Assistant Professor of Management

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Organization Studies
Health Care

VANDERBILT SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND NURSING

Medicine

Carolyn Audet Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine Ph.D., Vanderbilt University	Email	Understanding health seeking behavior and traditional treatment practices in resource limited settings
Mark Bliton Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago	Email
Frank Boehm Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology M.D., Vanderbilt	Email
Kyle Brothers Instructor, Pediatrics; Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society M.D., University of Louisville	Email	Pediatric Clinical Ethics Primary Care Pediatrics Pediatric Weight Management Acute Care Pediatrics
Larry Churchill Professor of Medicine; Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair of Medical Ethics; Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society Ph.D., Duke University	Email
Ellen Wright Clayton Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Law; Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics M.D., Harvard Medical School; J.D., Yale Law School	Email	Intersection of law, medicine and public health
Richard T. D’Aquila Associate Professor M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Email	HIV Antiretroviral resistance Latent reservoir of HIV Human genetics
Joseph Fanning Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society Ph.D., Vanderbilt University	Email	Understanding the connections between clinical ethics and the skills that promote strong clinician-patient relationships
Jill Fisher Assistant Professor of MedicinePh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute	Email	Studies the process of clinical development of investigational pharmaceuticals in the U.S. Explores the social and organizational implications for hospitals of new tracking technologies that monitor the real-time location of equipment, patients, and staff
Douglas Heimburger Professor of Medicine M.D., Vanderbilt University	Email
Elizabeth Heitman Associate Professor, Medicine, Anesthesiology; Religious Studies; Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society Ph.D., Rice University	Email
George C. Hill Associate Dean for Diversity in Medical Education M.D., New York University	Email	Pediatric Clinical Ethics Primary Care Pediatrics Pediatric Weight Management
Pat Levitt Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology Ph.D., University of California, San Diego	Email	Cortical development Cell signaling Schizophrenia, gene expression Interneurons
Melissa L. McPheeters Research Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Health and Society Ph.D., University of North Carolina; M.P.H., University of North Carolina	Email	Evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness Combines research translation and policy, including the role of stakeholders in CER, with the use of large databases and conduct of systematic reviews
Chandra Osborn Assistant Professor of Medicine Ph.D., University of Connecticut; M.P.H., Northwestern	Email	Health Disparities Health Literacy & Numeracy Diabetes Medication Adherence Behavior Change
A. Scott Pearson Associate Professor of Surgery M.D., University of Tennessee-Memphis	Email	Impact of narratives on patient care and health outcomes Author of the novels Rupture, and Public Anatomy
Russell Rothman Director, Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research; Associate Professor of Medicine M.D., Duke University	Email	Health Services Research Diabetes and Obesity Management and Prevention Health Behavior Health Communication
John Tarpley Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Wisconsin	Email	Mosquito immunology and physiology Host-parasite interactions
Sten Vermund Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health; Amos Christie Chair in Global Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Ph.D. Columbia University	Email	Epidemiology HIV/AIDS HPV Global Health International Health Infectious Disease
Lynn S. Walker Professor of Pediatrics Ph.D., Vanderbilt University	Email	Research Emphasis Chronic pain in adolescents

School of Nursing

Peter Buerhaus Valere Potter Professor of Nursing; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies of the Institute of Medicine and Public Health, VUMC Ph.D., Wayne State University	Email	Monitoring and analyzing trends in employment and earnings, and the age composition of the nurse and physician workforces Developing, testing and refining measures of nurse-sensitive quality of care
Barbara Clinton Director, Center for Health Services M.S.W., University of Georgia	Email
Carol Etherington Assoc. Director, Institute for Global Health; Assistant Professor M.S.N., Vanderbilt University	Email	Teaches medical, nursing and interdisciplinary groups of graduate students in community health, global health and caring for victims of violence
Rolanda Johnson Assistant Professor Ph.D., Vanderbilt University	Email	Health promotion of African-Americans Black racial identity Genetics & Obesity
Jana Lauderdale Assistant Dean for Cultural Diversity; Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Utah	Email	Health disparities Native American women’s health Minority nursing students’ educational issues
Melanie Lutenbacher Associate Professor, Nursing and Pediatrics Ph.D., University of Kentucky	Email	Community and home-based interventions to prevent or reduce known risks associated with preterm births, at-risk parenting, and a rapid repeat pregnancy Family-centered systems of care for high-risk families Maternal psychosocial predictors of abusive or at-risk parenting.
Linda Norman Senior Associate Dean of Academics; Professor of Nursing D.S.N., University of Alabama	Email	Quality improvement and program evaluation
Michelle Salisbury Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Texas	Email	Women’s health Cognitive-behavioral interventions in adolescent surgery patients
Kenneth Wallston Professor of Psychology in Nursing; Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor Ph.D., University of Connecticut	Email	Psychometric measurement Perceived control of health; health locus of control; perceived competence Adaptation to chronic illness Health literacy and numeracy; public health literacy

Tennessee Department of Health

Abelardo C. Moncayo

Senior Epidemiologist, State Medical Entomologist and Director of the Vector-Borne Disease Program, Tennessee Department of Health; Lecturer, Medicine, Health, and Society; Asst. Clinical Professor Preventive Medicine, VUSM

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts